Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

Blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.